Stereojack

Shemp Joe Besser Joe DeRita

Richard Whiting Sidney Blackmer Sonny Red

Anson Williams Potsie Ralph Malph

I smoked for fourteen years, starting when I was 16. Finally kicked the habit at 30, having quit for over a year twice only to pick up the habit again. It's a nasty and insidious habit, and every time I see a kid smoking, I'm disgusted as to how the kid has been duped (as I was) by the idea that it's "cool" to smoke. Have now been tobacco-free for much longer than I was hooked.

Gerry Mulligan Spike Milligan Harry Secombe

Bee Palmer Spider Martin Beetle Bailey

Terry & the Pirates Pirate Jenny Jenny Lind

Smith Barney Barney Barney Google

Barbara Parkins Carl Perkins Perk Williams

It is a test pressing of a reissue, so I'd be surprised if it went crazy, but then again, anything goes.

Jerry Butler Charles Butterworth Mary Worth

Shirley Horn Shirley Clay Muhammad Ali

Somebody else's English may also be not so good - I think Chet was occasionally called "Chetty".

Yes.

This is a fine record - contemporary and classic. Once again, I am very impressed with Matt Wilson, who I heard many times when he was in Charlie Kohlhase's band.

Simon Theodore ALVIN!!!!

Joe E. Ross Ross Bagdasarian David Seville

Mike, I'm afraid you're wrong! The Cuscuna/Ruppli BN Label discography book (first edition 1988) states that the first session recorded by BN in both mono and stereo was the May 8, 1957 session (Horace Silver 'The Stylings of Silver'). Or has this Bible been proved wrong? I have this from a note by Cuscuna himself on some reissue he produced! (I think it was the Japanese 3 LP boy "The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series".) As I said, the Sabu was only released in mono at the time - maybe the Silver was the first Blue Note to be issued in both mono and stereo. I had the Japanese LP reissue Cuscuna produced back then and now have the Japanese CD - clearly stereo. Perhaps the question should be which was the first Blue Note stereo session engineered by Rudy Van Gelder? A note at the end of the Silver date (May 8, 1957) in the Ruppli book clearly states that this is Blue Note's first stereo date. The Sabu date (April 28, 1957) was not recorded at Rudy's, it was recorded at Manhattan Towers, NYC, engineer uncredited. I've always assumed that the two week period April 21 - May 8) during which Blue Note did not record at Rudy's was while Rudy was installing his stereo recording equipment, which may be true, but a quick check of Ruppli's Prestige discography shows several dates (April 24, 26, 27, May 1, 3) not issued (and probably not recorded) in stereo. And Savoy recorded there on May 2, also mono. Btw, "The Stylings of Silver" is definitely not the first Blue Note to be issued in stereo. The stereo version was first released in 1967 when Liberty took over and "stereo-ized" the whole in print catalog - fake stereo on the earlier sessions, true stereo on the later ones. And, in many instances, they were unsure of what they had. I've found any number of Liberty-pressed 4000 series Blue Notes that claim to be "rechanneled for stereo" but which play true stereo.

Aside from the Ravens sides with Goodman, Ricks recorded a few sides with Goodman by himself. I have them on an old Harmony LP entitled "The Swingin' Benny Goodman Sextet", on which Ricks is identified simply as "Ricky", although that voice is unmistakeable. I've always loved Ricks' hit "Love Is the Thing" recorded for Mercury in the mid-1950's. I first heard tell about his Basie stint from a friend who had seen Ricks with Basie in the early 1970's, although there's nothing on record. Sheridan's Basie discography does show a couple of broadcasts, nothing commercially released.

Lars Gullin Lemuel Gulliver Jonathan Swift

Colonel Klink Sergeant Schultz Ho-o-o-o-gan!!!

Dave Berg Don Martin Mort Drucker

Jim Backus Gus Backus Clarence Quick

Fatty Arbuckle William F. Buckley Pearl Buck

Levi Stubbs Morris Levy Levon Helm